# How many cards are in a Darkness Ablaze master set?

> A Darkness Ablaze master set is 356 cards — every card plus its 155 reverse holos.
>
> Source: https://www.nomekop.app/faqs/how-many-cards-in-darkness-ablaze-master-set — NOMEKOP, an independent Pokémon TCG binder tool
> (not affiliated with Nintendo / The Pokémon Company). Figures as of June 2026.

**A Darkness Ablaze master set is 356 cards — every card plus its 155 reverse holos.**

## What a Darkness Ablaze master set includes

One of everything: all 201 numbered cards — the 189 base plus 12 secret rares — then every reverse holo, 155 of them. The headline cards you have to land:

- [Charizard VMAX (#20)](/card/swsh3-20) — Rare Holo VMAX (~$54.31)
- [Butterfree VMAX (#190)](/card/swsh3-190) — Rare Rainbow (~$24.05)
- [Salamence VMAX (#194)](/card/swsh3-194) — Rare Rainbow (~$15.88)
- [Scizor VMAX (#193)](/card/swsh3-193) — Rare Rainbow (~$13.33)
- [Eternatus VMAX (#192)](/card/swsh3-192) — Rare Rainbow (~$11.25)
- [Charizard V (#19)](/card/swsh3-19) — Rare Holo V (~$10.28)

## The extras unique to Darkness Ablaze

Darkness Ablaze has no special pattern variants, so the master set is the 201-card checklist plus 155 reverse holos — no extra pattern foils to chase beyond the 12 secret rares.

## Star Pokémon in the Darkness Ablaze master set

A master set means chasing every print of the set's headline Pokémon, not just one each:

- **Butterfree** — Butterfree V (#177), Butterfree VMAX (#190)
- **Salamence** — Salamence V (#185), Salamence VMAX (#194)
- **Scizor** — Scizor V (#183), Scizor VMAX (#193)
- **Eternatus** — Eternatus VMAX (#192)
- **Rillaboom** — Rillaboom (#197)

## The Darkness Ablaze master-set total

All in, a complete Darkness Ablaze master set is **356 cards** versus 189 for the base — about 1.9× the work, or roughly 40 pages in a 9-pocket binder. Sleeve and storage budget should target the larger number if you're going all the way on Darkness Ablaze.

Figures are from the pokemontcg.io dataset, as of June 2026.